HTC shutting factories, might move to outsource smartphone production

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23 Oct 2013, 02:39posted on

Both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal are reporting today that there is some major production restructuring brewing at HTC. The Journal cites its own sources who confirm that HTC has been in talks with Foxconn, Wistron and the like, for outsourcing some of its smartphone production to them. Currently HTC makes all of its phones itself, in a few factories in Taiwan and mainland China...

Plenty of experience manufacturing lemon handsets? Besides that I can't think of anything else. They don't manufacture their own displays, ram,CPU, glass, or camera lens. That leaves precious little for them to manufacture.

All HTC has to do is release a flagship "pretty phone" with REMOVABLE BATTERY & SD CARD SLOT and they will be right back in the race. Its so obvious that NOBODY (except isheep) wants a "sealed shut" phone with a tiny battery, therefore constantly having its users plugged into a wall all day like a dog on a leash. This is checkers not chess HTC...

LG (G2) and Motorola (Maxx) seem to be capable of producing good "sealed" phones that last all day. If all companies understood that a good battery is worth adding a millimeter to the device thickness, it wouldn't be such a problem.

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